Accessibility Statement

This website recognises the importance of providing a website that is accessible to all user groups, including persons with disabilities.

Features to enhance the accessibility of this website

These features have been provided to help make our site as accessible as to as broad an audience as possible.

All text should be resizable using your browser's text–resize option.
Your own style sheet may be applied to allow changes in the site's appearance without affecting the accessibility or readability of the underlying information in the page.
All images have been given appropriate alternative text.
On each page a navigation bar is provided which links to the main sections of the site.
The site has been tested to ensure that it is accessible and viewable in a wide range of old and new web browsers
There is a short menu at the start of every page that allows you to jump directly to the most important parts of the page, including main content and navigation, bypassing navigation bars which should make navigation quicker if you are using the keyboard or other input device to browse the site.

Design

Cascading Style Sheets have been used to control the presentation of pages and properly structured markup has been used for content,
Relative font sizes are used, which allows users to resize text as needed
If stylesheets are not supported by your browser (or are turned off), all of the information on the site can still be accessed.

Standards

All HTML should validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional using the W3C markup validator
All stylesheets should validate using W3C CSS validator
All pages should comply with all relevant priority 1,2 and 3 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Each shortcut has an access key assigned.

Access Keys

G: Graphics Site:
T: Text Only
1: Home
2: About US
3: Access Audit Consultancy
4: Web Accessibility Consultancy
5: Disability News India (DNI)
6: Disability Links
7: Facts and Figures
8: Contact Us
9: Accessibility Statement

Text Only

This website has a Text-only version for visually impaired readers. With the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), we can provide those who require a high contrast, large text format of this website, without depriving them of any content available on the Graphics version of the website.

Other Information

If you do encounter any accessibility barriers that prevent your use and enjoyment of the site, please contact us and we will do our best to resolve the issue quickly.

Valid XHTML

All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional and use structured semantic markup.

How to use accesskeys on your browser:

Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape 7 (PC): Hold down ALT key and the accesskey number

Firefox/Mozilla/Safari/Omniweb (Mac): Press CMD key and the accesskey number

Internet Explorer 5+ (PC): Hold down ALT key, press the accesskey number, release both keys then press ENTER

Internet Explorer 4 (PC): Hold down ALT key and the accesskey number

Internet Explorer 5+ (Mac): Hold down CMD key and the accesskey number

Internet Explorer 4.5/Netscape 6 and earlier (PC and Mac): Accesskeys not supported

Opera: To activate access keys in Opera, you will need to switch into accesskey mode first. Press SHIFT+ALT to enter access-key mode, and a list of the available access keys will be displayed. You can then press the appropriate access key to activate the link or form input. To exit access-key mode, press Shift+Esc again.